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Show SPORTOGRAPHY IN YEAR 1916 University of Washington Makes a Record Without Parallel in Football. FATHER GANDER. See, see. What shnll I see? A horse's head where his tail should be? Well, e'en that wouldn't be as funny As Cinnoy players with series money. News from Manhattan borough is that the chief business before tho National Na-tional league meeting is the reduction of the salaries of players. News from uook county, m., is that the chief business before the American league meeting is the reduction of the salaries sal-aries of players. ' Two leagues with but a single thought, two hearts that beat as one; and sixteen magnates doping plans for saving of their mon'. Well, let 'em strike, what do I care? thus spake the doughty Ban; do what they like, for 1 can bear the burden if they can. THE MAGNATES MOOT. "Howdy I" "How-do-you-do?" "Hullo!" "Hul-lo!" The magnates meet and then thev blow. "What'll you have?" "The same for me." (A feminine voice: "I'll take tea.") "We gotta out expenses, Jim." "I wouldn't swap a dog for him." "Lager for mine." "He's going down grade." (A feminine voice: "Lemonade.") "Lemon-ade.") "You're crazy, man that hunk of bone?" "Say, that reminds me" then a groan. "We'll close the parks and freeze 'em out." "I suffer agonies agon-ies with gout." "We gotta show 'em who is who." "Yep, that iB sure the thing to do." "Well, line up, boys what'll you have?" More drinks, more threats, more trades, more salve. "Name your prized what shall it be?" (A soprano voice: "I'll take tea.") Grouchy Gus says: The magnates lose money every year but you never hear of any of 'era riding the rods to the annual league meetings. Fred Toney, the elongated twlrler of the Reds and their main dependence in the box the past two seasons, passes pass-es his twenty-seventh milestone today. Sir Frederick was born in Atlanta on December 11, 1889, and was first heard of in professional baseball circles cir-cles in 1908, when he got a job with Winchester in the Blue Grass league. He pitched for the Kentucky team threo seasons, and landed in the big Show with the Cubs in 1911. He was used very little in Chicago, and in the spring of 1912 was optionally released : to Louisville. The Cubs recalled him in mid-season, but soon turned him back to the Colonels. In 1914 Toney : won twenty-one games, losing fifteen, in tho American association, and was drafted by the Dodgers, but was turned turn-ed over to tho Reds. Fred had been knocked about from pillar to post without having a chance to show his goods in the big show, but his confidence con-fidence in himself was undiminished, and last year he made a groat showing with the Reds. With a 1.57 average of runs scored against him, he stood second in the National league in 1916. This year his work was rather disappointing disap-pointing to the Rcdbugs, his average being 2.28, while he won fourteen and lost seventeen contests. Big Ed Reulbach, the veteran twirling twirl-ing star who wore a Brave uniform this year, seems to be approaching the end of his romarkable career. Edward is thirty-four years old today, as he was born in Detroit on December 11, 1882. Reulbach made quite a reputation reputa-tion on school and other amateur clubs in St. Louis, and in 1903 pitched professional ball at Sedalla, Mo. He was then a college student at Notre Dame, and, as he had concealed his professional activities under the name of Lawson, he was made captain of the 'varsity nine in 1904. Tho following follow-ing year the Cubs bought his release from Sedalla, and Ed soon became one of the twirling stars of the Chance machine. In 1913 he was traded to Brooklyn, but Mr. Ebbots released him early in 1915, and Reulbach worked work-ed for the Newark Feds last year, winning win-ning twenty-one games to ten lost. Ed worked in twenty-one games for the Braves this year, -winning seven and losing six. He has been prominent in the Players' fraternity, and has also been active in the water wagon movement move-ment among Jhe diamond athletes. John Francis Moakley, the famous Cornell track and cross-country coach, celebrates his fifty-third birthday today. to-day. Jack's runners captured the intercollegiate in-tercollegiate cross-country championship champion-ship again last month, again demonstrating demon-strating that Moakley is the most successful suc-cessful of coaches of hill and dale men.. Moakley's red runners have seldom failed to take the trophy back to Ithaca since Jack turned out his first 'varsity cross-country team away back In '99. Ho has snent thiWv.siv of his fifty-three years as runner and coach of runners. His first fame was gained in Boston, and for a dozen years he actively competed In the Hub. He has spent eighteen vears in the service of Cornell, and early this year signed a new contract for ten years. Next to "Pop" Courtney he Is the greatest of Cornell heroes, and It is as much to the devotion and admiration ad-miration of the students as to wizardry wiz-ardry of training that his success has been due. TODAY IN PUGILISTIC ANNALS. John T. Hagan, better known under his ring name of Young Jack O'Brien was born in Philadelphia twentv-two years ago today. He is the kid brother broth-er of Joseph F. Hagan, illustrious in ring annals as "Philadelphia Jack O Bnen." Young Jack has been fighting fight-ing professionally for five vears, and before that was ihe 125-pound amateur champion of tho Middle Atlantic states. Although he hah had the advantage ad-vantage of the counsel and training of his brother, Young Jack hasn't shed any great amount of luster on the name of O'Brien. Old Jack was one of the wiliest and trickiest ring gen-orals gen-orals tho game has ever had. Ho claimed the heavyweight championship champion-ship when Jeffries retired, and fought a twenty-round draw with Tommy Burns in Los Angeles about ten vears ago, but in a subsequent meeting in the same city the Canadian defeated him. Old Jack was afterwards knocked knock-ed out by Stanley Ketch el nnd Sam Langford. Young Jack showed great promise when he began fighting, and Philadelphia fans believed that he was a coming champion. |